play games of chance for money; bet.
Questions tagged [gambling]
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Is Internet gambling more harmful than regular gambling?
There is legislation in place in a number of Westernised countries such as the U.S. and Australia that makes certain aspects of gambling over the Internet illegal.
One of the major justifications for these laws is the assertion that online gambling…
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Do slot machines play in the key of C?
I was listening to Episode 57 of the Talk Show (at 44:35), and one of the hosts mentioned that he'd heard that slot machines all play in the key of C. Ostensibly, this is because this frequency is especially pleasing.
The show notes linked to an…
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Can some people beat roulette wheels using "visual ballistics"?
In the past, people beat roulette wheels using machines that measure ball speed and predict where the ball will land. That is discussed in the question Is it possible to gain an edge in roulette through physics?.
However, nowadays such machines are…
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Did a NY man win the State Lottery 1,400 times?
According to a story published on syracuse.com, a man from Syracuse named Randal Stier won the NY Lottery at least 1,400 times pocketing $600 or more in prizes per win (totaling over $1.6 million in wins, not including wins from prizes less than…
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Did Russian hackers beat slot machines with an app?
Russian hackers made up to $250,000 per weekend by using an app to tell them when to pull a trigger.
[...] custom app on the operative’s phone; those markers cause the handset to vibrate roughly 0.25 seconds before the operative should press the…
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Do modern day slot machines notify the manufacturer that a jackpot is about to be hit?
As I understand it, the manufacturer of the slot machine is on the hook for any progressive jackpot the machine pays out.
Given that modern day slot machines use a random number generator (and knowing a few things about how RNGs are not quite random…
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Are Taiwanese people gambling on when cancer sufferers will die?
Police investigate claims of gambling with dying patients - Taipei Times
Greater Taichung police on Tuesday said they have launched an
investigation into a report that gamblers are betting tens of millions
of dollars on the life expectancy of…
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Real Risk of Bankruptcy after a Lottery Win?
There are currently claims that between 30% and 70% percent of lottery winners will go bankrupt.
Indeed, the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards says nearly a third of lottery winners declare bankruptcy—meaning they were worse off than…
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Are there slot machines with wheels that use bingo internally?
I've heard rumors that many slot machines use an invisible internal bingo algorithm to determine whether they pay out, supposedly as a way around the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.
For example, I found this on one site (with a rather clickbait…
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